Gone To Timbuktu Podcast
1) Series 3 Ep 6: Steve Boyes
The South African author, explorer and conservationist takes us on a magnetic river journey through the great spine of Africa. His storytelling leads us into the dreamscape of 'Ghost Elephants' — Wern...Show More
2) Series 3 Ep 5: Emmanuel Iduma
The Nigerian author talks about two books: one a journey across his homeland reaching for fragments of history from his nation's civil war, the other a powerful dreamscape evoking the cities of the Sa...Show More
3) Series 3 Ep 4: Joanna Pocock
In Greyhound, the Canadian-Irish author Joanna Pocock takes us on a journey across America by bus, in a truly modern blend of memoir, reportage, and the literary imagination.
4) Series 3 Ep 3: Leo Damrosch
The American master of biography talks about the subject of his most recent obsession: the Scottish traveller, South Seas adventurer and prose genius, Robert Louis Stevenson. To the likes of Henry Jam...Show More
5) Series 3 Ep 2: Monisha Rajesh
On a far-reaching journey from Savannah to the Arctic Circle, we experience the joys (and fears) of night travel as told by one of the great contemporary travel writers on railways. This time, the foc...Show More
6) Series 3 Ep 1: Lyse Doucet
Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, discusses her first major book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul. An instant Sunday Times bestseller, it tells the story of the last 50 years of Afgh...Show More
7) Series 2 Ep 12: Caroline Eden
On journeys through Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, Russia, the Baltics and Poland, Caroline Eden reveals the kitchen’s unique ability to tell intimate human stories. This episode —...Show More
8) Series 2 Ep 11: Damian Le Bas
A father’s death, a Romany taboo, and a childhood obsession with Plato’s myth about the lost city of Atlantis drives award-winning author Damian Le Bas on a quest to find meaning in sunken ruins aroun...Show More
9) Series 2 Ep 10: Kapka Kassabova
Discussing Anima, the final book in her decade-long quartet, awardwinning author and poet Kapka Kassabova takes us on a journey into a wild corner of the Balkans to meet the the last true pastoralists...Show More
10) Series 2 Ep 9: Philip Marsden
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Rocks is another travel writing classic from Philip Marsden. Journeying across Europe, from Cornwall to Georgia, he tells a fascinating story about the interconnec...Show More